Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread
By Nicole Belle Saturday Sep 27, 2008 7:00am
The summation scene from The Verdict (1981)
I remember when I had faith in justice. That was just so pre-Bush administration, wasn't it? And I desperately want to believe that we'll find it again, though I feel confident that it won't be on this Sunday's shows. Week 3 of the Palin no-show, ho hum. Barack Obama will appear on Face the Nation, while McCain will be on This Week, with puppetmaster and muckraker Newt Gingrich. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will be on Late Edition, perhaps to make sure McSame remembers his name correctly. And finally, Big Dog Bill Clinton will be on Meet the Press this morning. Given Brokaw's proclivity towards right wing framing, will we see another confrontation a la Wallace/Clinton?
ABC's "This Week" - Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
CBS' "Face the Nation" - Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
NBC's "Meet the Press" - Former President Clinton; David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist; Steve Schmidt, senior adviser to McCain; Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo.; former Rep. Bob Schaffer, R-Colo.
CNN's "Late Edition" - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari; Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Eric Cantor, R-Va.
"Fox News Sunday" - Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and John Kerry, D-Mass; Cristian Samper, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
"The Chris Matthews Show" - Panel: David Brooks, Andrea Mitchell, Eugene Robinson, Katty Kay. Topics: Who won Friday's debate? Who has the momentum going forward?
So what's catching your eye this morning?
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Debate Polls Show McCain Passed Threshold of Douchebag-in-Chief
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=3551
Here is a great CLIP of Tina Fey doing the now famous Palin-Couric interview
FREE SARAH!
Can't we send Bill Clinton to the same undisclosed location where Palin is sequestered? His not so subtle pro McCain anti Obama rhetoric just keeps coming.
Catching eyes? You mean the media isn't all over the giant Bail Us Poor Corporations Out plan? yikes!
700 billion dollar bills on the wall, 700 billion bills
If one of those corporations pretends to fall
699 billion bills on the wall.........
☺☻Bangkok Bob☻☺ @ 2:
Good Morning Everyone!
And thank you Bob for that link. My husband saw it last night and was telling me about it this morning. He said, "You have to see this!" And now thanks to you, I have. :)
tyke @ 4:
SNL BLEW HIM UP LAST NIGHT
VIDEO: Chris Rock Disses Bill Clinton For Tepid Obama Support
ConcernedCanuck @ 5:
It will take 2036 year to count your money
years
pissed off patricia @ 6:
Morning POP ... don't know if you noticed on that site they had the actual interview just below it for comparison. Fey was almost verbatim.
I'd like to go out and have a few drinks but my gills haven't fully developed yet, I think that takes about ten years of monsoons.
BILL CLINTON on SNL WEEKEND Update
The former President wants you to know exactly where he stands...
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A Note to Bill Clinton by Paul Slansky, 09.23.2008
ConcernedCanuck @ 5:
Oh, that was so yesterday...
It's all over but the shouting printing and slaving...
fastfeat @ 12:
☺☻Bangkok Bob☻☺ @ 10:
It was too funny!
I know it's early but are we still taking money from the poor and middle class and giving it to the filthy rich? Looking back at history I can see how this plan has worked so well before..he he!
I think most people have seen Tina Fey as Sarah Palin more often than they have seen Sarah Palin as Tina Fey.
good morning all!
from SNL: Presidential Debate - McCain and Obama go head to head...
tyke @ 4:
I agree with assessments I've read regarding his lukewarm campaigning. He's not really upset about the Hillary's loss but about how it reflects on him and he probably sees it as yet another rejection. He's also aged quite a bit and his health is no longer that robust. Put all that together and Bill Cranky is what you get instead of bill clinton. And it shows. Not someone I'd want stumping for me.
Old man and his pig @ 15:
gotta check with
herbert hoovergeorge booshOld man and his pig @ 15:
Why yes, yes we are:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080928/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown
The inevitable collapse of the dollar
One great metaphor: America's only job is to 'eat'
CoIntelPro for Pronktastic Victory Over SCLM, DIEBOLD, ESS and SEQUOIA! @ 21:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62_w7WmQmRo
fastfeat @ 22:
fdr prevented it. mcbush won't.
From this blog
Lets play a game, Orders of magnitude (poor to ultra rich)
$7
A meal at some diner chain.
The Federal hourly minimum wage in 2009
$70
A meal at some posh restaurant.
Daily wage on or near minimum wage (10 or 12 hour shift)
Hourly rate for the top tier jobs in the US.
What some CEOs earn per minute. ($9M pa)
$700
Meal at an expensive restaurant.
Poor person’s budget buying a car.
Fortnightly wage, ($18K pa) US poverty line.
Weekly wage for average income US.
$7000
Price of a S/H mobile home.
Low mid end S/H car price.
A fancy watch (also tells time).
Weekly wage for some CEOs $(3.6M pa)
$70,000
The price NOW of some houses that were worth $100K a year or so ago.
A fancy new car.
Price of some ridiculous over priced watches (they also tell time).
Yearly salary for a nice job.
$700,000
Cost of a house somewhere nice.
Price some people pay for a car.
Wall Street annual income after basic salary and mega bonus.
Worth of a 401K scheme before they dropped a level.
$7,000,000
Cost of a ghetto mansion.
CEO annual salary.
Small/Medium sized companies income or worth.
Share option package for some lucky people.
$70,000,000
Price of a real mansion.
Some CEOs with mad skillz annual income.
$700,000,000
Size of top Wall Streeter’s stash in Switzerland.
What United Airlines lost playing futures with fuel prices.
$7,000,000,000
Play money for the top financial companies.
$70,000,000,000
Wanna buy an amazing Wall Street Company.
$700,000,000,000
Cost of saving Wall Street and destroying the worth of the Dollar.
OT--
Somali pirates 'jack Ukrainian ship loaded with tanks, other military equipment:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/702821.html
OT--
New "no-match" Florida law questions many voter IDs:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/legislature/story/703761.html
"Who has the momentum going forward?"
I think that's a difficult question to answer. John "Brittany Spears" McCain has been tying up all the news cycles since the GOP convention. Granted, it's been an attention-getting freak-show that doesn't make him look good but it keeps people from talking about Obama and keeps whatever Obama is doing on the back pages.
Is there a reason we New Yorkers are not going to be able to watch Obama on "Face the Nation"? There is some never-before-heard-of 9/11 memorial run being aired on the CBS station from 9am to 11am, pre-empting "Face the Nation", but we can watch John McSame on "Meet the Press". And I would be unpatriotic if I said "Hmmmm, I wonder why NBC isn't showing the 9/11 run and pre-empting John McCain?", or "Why couldn't they broadcast the run after "Face the Nation"?
Watching "Meet the Press" (gag!) and remain appalled at how deeply he is in the bag for McCain and the Republicans. His tone and his choice of questions and press quotes is ludicrous. If he does this during the debates he needs to be removed from all of his roles. We need to put pressure on NBC and let them know this sustained right-wing bias is irresponsible for a "journalist" in his position on a major network.
Chris Mathews has who on his show discussing "who won the debate". What a waste of time on that one.
Oh, so this is the same ABC that denied Joe Biden a post debate interview because Palin was in hiding. Of course it was the equal time excuse. Why not have Barbara Boxer on with John McCain instead on Newt "Grinch"? That would only be fair.
I saw Palin's negatives this morning. They are at the blessed 50% threshold.
I just heals Newt lamenting the fact that our corporate tax rate was 35% while Japan's was 11% (I think) and China's was 0%. This sounded odd to me.
Is he promoting a governemt take over of the corporate world?
HEARD not heals, sorry
nkd @ 32:
Maybe he's planning on moving to China?
I don't want him making my dog food.
fastfeat @ 34:
I'd like to see him eat Chinese-made dog food. Daily.
as barack obama said!!!!!!! 700billion dollars IS POTENTIALLY A LOT OF MONEY ! no shit barack?
All the great "luminaries" are on TeeVee again huh?
swampfox @ 36:
Well the CONgress just gave Bush 650 Billion yesterday for war.
And it all ends up back in their pockets eventually.
Were getting way to freaking routine man you can have it!
nkd @ 32:
Most firms pay no income taxes - Congress
Study finds that the majority of domestic and foreign corporations in the United States avoid paying federal income taxes.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/index.htm
Does anyone here listen to Sirius Left? Specifically Lynn Samuels? I'd like to hear your thoughts on her program.
Bail out frame work agreed on according to MSNBC/AP (updated 15 mins ago)
voting monday, they gotta have something half agreed on because the Asian stock exchanges open sunday afternoon US time.
they have just agreed to the blindingly obvious, how just and fair remains to be seen.
and which companies are to be favored, which let go to the dogs, the biog question.
gov insurance on distressed CDOs stuff goes without saying as the US gov owns 80% of AIG...
Jack Cafferty gives a little smack-down to Palin and then to Blitzer.
"If John McCain wins, this woman will be one 72-year-old's heartbeat away from being president of the United States, and if that doesn't scare the hell out of you, it should"
I think that the bailout is really Bush's legacy. It will raise taxes and cut programs. I believe that in regard to spending on federal programs it was Reagan who said, "Starve the beast." Bush has managed to do that.
ferrofluid (Obama + Biden = 2008) @ 43:
From Yahoo:
"The legislation would place "reasonable" limits on severance packages for executives of companies that benefit from the rescue plan, said a senior administration official who was authorized to speak only on background."
Really, does anyone expect anything with the stink of Bush and this Congress to give "reasonable" limits here?
How about this--These f*ckers get ZERO until we start getting returns on the $700B.
On This Week -- Did McCain say he has better things to think about when replying about his not mentioning the middle class? I am not sure I heard what I think I heard.
I tried to listen to Clinton on Beat the Meat, but I fell asleep. Let me guess, he didn't really come out and support Obama enthusiastically...
Watching Palin gave me a rare case of erectile patriotism, so like any red-blooded American, I wrote a song about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7trIpspUILg
Nada @ 18:
what bill doesnt get, and this is what kills me, is that an obama win is his legacy
for years, i didnt want to believe the stories of how vindictive clinton was, or how his entire "i feel your pain" was just an act
but now i see that it is all true
clinton fucked kerry so that hillary could run in 08, and hes trying to do the same to obama
go away bill....you bother me
fastfeat @ 46:
pelossi and reid have gotta go
and after this bailout package passes, the repugs dont have a leg to stand on
the reagan revolution is dead
every bill that eroded that new deal protrections must be overturned...dont care if it does effect the way we save or make money....it must be done
every trade deal must be looked at
tariffs must be instituted again
we must have a manufacturing base
we have to go back to square one
if we dont, in one to two years the economy will experience such a collapse that no bail out will be possible
it will make the great depression look like a "correction"
What's catching my eye is McCain's left eye (the fact that it droops and blinks out of synch with his right). And his swollen lower lip. And his upper lip that doesn't move. And his recently acquired lisp Seriously, did anybody see him on Snuffleupagus' show this morning? A lot of medical professionals are beginning to wonder whether he has had some sort of a small stroke, or worse, that his recurring melanoma has finally metastasized to his brain.
I think it's finally time to start asking serious questions about McCain's health in reference to his ability to be POTUS. After all, we all have to get a physical when we apply for health insurance whose results we supply to the insurance company. Why can't we require the same for our potential commander-in-chief?
The Repugs must know how sick McCain is. If they haven't got a daily medical running sheet and an estimate how long Mccain has got in weeks, months years, then there not the Repugs I know.
Here's the easy trip to the White house. McCain wins but fails his medical and Palin steps in.
Palin must be licking her lips watching the pre-corpse.
Sarah Palin is an insult to the intelligence of women everywhere. Does the republican party think that women will vote for an idiot just because she's a female? Think again.
j anderson @ 54:
The Republican party just thinks you'll vote for an idiot. They have nothing else to offer.
Just looking at the list of shows and who is going to be on them, my only comment is:
The used car salesmen are out selling the bailout. I for one cannot see how this proposed "plan" is nothing more than one of Karl Rove's biggest wet dreams
See the Aristocrats Case Wagenvoord's post today
Almost NFL time, so there will be a temporary escape from this Madness
Why oh why can't people get movie release dates right? "The Verdict" premiered at the end of 1982, not 1981 as the article suggests. It was also nominated for Best Picture of 1982 not 1981. Is it really that hard to research such things?
Seems like there should be a way to turn the Palin-being-absent-from-these-Sunday-morning-shows into a drinking game.
Seriously...this is the VP candidate of one of our two major parties, vying for the highest office in the land, and she's nowhere to be seen. Their excuse that she is being prepped for the debate is quite worrisome, IMO.
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